Congratulations to Mark Bowden, Laurence Crane, Martin Iddon and Richard Whalley – all nominated to for BASCA British Composer Awards last night and especially to Mark for winning the Solo or Duo category with Five Memos for violin and piano. In the same category were Martin Iddon’s Ampelos for solo voice and four pre-recorded voices …

The programme for New Music Dublin 2017 was announced last week: alongside performances by Simon Keenlyside, Christiane Stotijn or Barbara Hannigan, the festival will also feature a new orchestral work by Ed Bennett, to be premiered by Thomas Adès and the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra at the National Concert Hall Dublin on Friday 3rd March 2017 at 19.30. Meanwhile, the …

On Sunday 27 November 2016 at the St George’s Bristol, Lydbrook Band – one of the West Country’s premier brass bands – will join forces with training bands from around the region alongside several hundred voices to create a journey through flight, including the iconic Concorde, in Liz Lane’s newly commissioned work, Innovation 216. The piece is a massed …

Two compositions by Colin Riley will receive their premieres next week: “Impossible Worlds” will be performed by COMA Bristol at the Victoria Rooms on Wednesday, November 30, 2016 (from 7:30pm and 9:30pm). On the very same night, “Songs of Coiled Light” for solo bass clarinet, live electronics and vibrating surfaces will be performed by Gareth Davis at the Antonin Artaud …

‘further’ – a new work by Bernd Asmus, will be performed on Tuesday, 15th November, 7:30 pm at the ‘Kulturzentrum bei den Minoritaeten’, Graz, Austria by the German pianist Katharina Olivia Brand. She will be playing a full concert with new works by Markus Roth, Florian Gessler, Peter Lackner, Bernd Asmus and Bernhard Lang in a concert recorded by the ORF. …

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